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kaberett) wrote2025-11-02 10:10 pmObserving. All Souls'. Candle lit; Seelkuchen eaten.
Reading. ( Rucka, Waitrose Cookery School, Stocks, Duncan, Ravindran )
Playing. Merrily pootling along with I Love Hue. Hatched my first dragon with Primal eyes in The Dragons Game.
Cooking. Two variations on a recipe: smitten kitchen's winter squash and spinach pasta bake and the recipe that inspired it, Ottolenghi's pasta and butternut squash cake. On the first day I definitely preferred the smitten kitchen version; on subsequent days I became increasingly convinced by the Ottolenghi. (You see, I had about twice as much of all of the ingredients as I needed, and the spinach definitely needed eating Imminently, and so I thought I'd make them simultaneously so we could do the side-by-side comparison and then freeze some...)
And then this evening I made another round of the wahaca autumn stew with pipián, this time with even wronger chillis but a sensible amount of herbs, and was delighted that it met with my mother's approval.
Eating. SCHWARZBROT with Lizard honey. Curries various courtesy of my father. Salads and lunches various courtesy of my mother. The dark chocolate & raspberry stars that are a Special Seasonal Treat. National Trust lemon drizzle cake. A RASPBERRY.
Exploring. THE NEW SITE FOR ADMIN: THE LRP. And this afternoon we went on an adventure to Anglesey Abbey, where the dahlias were alas gone but we found many many more cyclamen than we knew were there, and several things in the winter garden were at a different stage than I think I'd ever seen them before and were extremely pretty with it.
Creating. Carved a pumpkin for the toddler!
wildeabandon) wrote2025-11-02 09:58 pmdotaturls_feed) wrote2025-11-02 01:35 amsmbc_comics_feed) wrote2025-11-02 11:20 am
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Later, peace is reestablished when an MBA accidentally enters the lecture hall.
dotaturls_feed) wrote2025-10-30 11:54 pmdotaturls_feed) wrote2025-11-02 12:38 amkaberett) wrote2025-11-01 11:33 pmToday has been largely taken up by my first visit to the NEW SITE for Admin: the LRP...
... or at least, my first visit in something like twenty years, because it's the old Cottenham racecourse and I absolutely went to one (1) race there in My Misspent Youth. Sudden wave of déjà vu on the final approach to the grandstand, as the perspective shifted to YEP, THIS IS A PLACE I'VE BEEN.
There was Make Tent go Up. There was meeting. There was Make Tent Go Down. There was being given Objects. And there was A BAT that did some beautifully ostentatious swooping against the darkening dusk, and I am delighted.
hilarita) wrote2025-11-01 08:21 pmrmc28cosmolinguist) wrote2025-11-01 03:14 pmI mentioned that we saw Deliver Me from Nowhere, but I didn't have time to get into my thoughts on it, so here are some.
"One of the things that confuses me about this film," D said in his review, "is who it's for, other than cosmolinguist." And I can't help him there, but it definitely is for me. It takes place around the time I'm being born, only a few years before this man would become my favorite musician (I was about three when I could locate and play "Born in the U.S.A." from my dad's record collection, holding the LP carefully and putting the needle down in a way that wouldn't scratch it).
I love that it's about men and masculinity in a way you don't normally see them: I love how the relationship between Springsteen and Landau is portrayed, it's intense and it's emotionally savvy. I don't love the way that women are such secondary characters in this movie that I don't even know Mrs. Landau's name, but I also love the way Jon came home at the end of some of these difficult work days and talked to her about Springsteen's big ugly feelings that were driving the direction his work and life was taking at that point.
I love that the single-mother girlfriend -- who as I suspected was a conglomeration of multiple real-life people -- seemed to confront him with the force of all those real women when he told her he was leaving for California: he's messed up and he's stuck and he seems unwilling to do anything about that. (The road trip and arrival in California shift the dial more toward "unable," but you can't blame this woman for assuming it's "unwilling"; this is clearly not her first experience of young men disappointing her.)
I feel weird because I'm the biggest Springsteen fan any of my friends know with one or two possible exceptions -- more than one person has told me they're relying on me to let them know whether the movie is worth seeing or not -- but compared to the real devotees I am barely a casual fan -- I've only seen him once and not until last year! A lot of my favorite songs are older than me, or close to it, so I have absorbed them in that contextless all-at-once haphazard way that culture is, without time to spread it out or an expert to steer you in it. Born in the U.S.A. rocketed Springsteen from success to superstardom, and my dad was apparently part of that wave because he had that record and no others. I found it on my own, noticed Springsteen's songs on the radio on my own, re-discovered him (after a teenage period of being mortified that I'd ever loved music so uncool as to turn up on classic-rock stations) with "The Ghost of Tom Joad" on my own...
I say all that to say that I'd never realized how entangled Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A. are as albums. I liked that the movie portrayed them as so intimately bound up together. We couldn't have had the stadium-filling without the bedroom-recorded demos that were never meant to be heard by anyone else. That really struck me: a lot of my younger years were about me trying to skip the weird confusing maybe-ugly fixations of my brain and heart, I wanted to get right to the likeable if not successful bits. But of course you can't do that. The only way to the cool successful thing might be through the ugly private things.
And you don't have to; the weird confusing ugly stuff might be able to be loved too.
I want to talk about Frankenstein and Breaking the Code too, but this is probably enough for today.
andrewducker) wrote2025-11-01 05:43 pmandrewducker) wrote2025-11-01 12:04 pm
Sophia and Gideon making the DNA for their respective eye colours.
(First ever trip to the Glasgow Science Centre, it was awesome)
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
smbc_comics_feed) wrote2025-11-01 11:20 amsmbc_comics_feed) wrote2025-10-31 05:13 pm
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Ironically, I had to censor this due to running ads, but... one day...
bruce_schneier_feed) wrote2025-10-31 09:06 pmI can’t believe that I haven’t yet posted this picture of a giant squid at the Smithsonian.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
